1) My favourite HR site (which provides agile and sustainable thought leadership to all its stakeholders) sent me a great text message about the importance of formulating a weekly strategy.

Within one week, all our company employees (supported by Cynthia Axe) had formulated a sustainable weekly strategy, without any OD consultant.

2) One year ago, this very same site that sent me a critical life-changing text which advised me to use the term"in a timely fashion" 5 times a week, and to be generous with the use of the term "global and sustainable". Furthermore the site issued a text about the importance of the daily use of the term "in line with our core values. "

All of the above was implemented without OD meddling, or coaching, or change management.

OD may be dead in your organization, Gloria, but it can never be replaced by your prattles. Why? Because: Groups and teams will always go through predictable stages of development. Nasty conflicts will always need to be resolved with assistance from someone neutral about outcomes. Major change will always need to be mid-wifed by an 'inside-outside' partnership. Lemme see you do THAT!